Welcome to the WebSphere Portal Blog. We're the team responsible for the strategy and planning of WebSphere Portal . Let me introduce the team (they should be putting all this into their profiles, but those will be filled in over time. ;) Rob Will is the...

We often get asked what is the difference between a portlet and a widget and so I thought it would be a good idea to provide a post that explains some of this. Portlets and Widgets both provide a UI component model and as such have a lot of similarities. ...

Whenever you deploy a new WebSphere Portal instance you must tune the Portal in a manner appropriate to the environment. For example, out of the box, Portal is NOT tuned for production . The IBM Portal Performance team has produced several documents that...

We have recently published several Self-help / Dynamic Migration guides for various products. These guides are designed to help users choose, plan and simplify the process of migrating from an older version to a more current version of each product....

Beginning with v8 of MQ, the product was renamed from WebSphere MQ to IBM MQ. Now that v9 has been available for a while, we thought it was a good time to rename the product in the IBM Support Portal from WebSphere MQ to IBM MQ. Consequently, we have a...

Occasionally when you search in Process Inspector and Process Portal with the same condition in IBM Business Process Manager, you receive search results that are different instead of the same. Why does this happen? Well... The Process Inspector search...

If you are new to IBM Software Support, have not really taken advantage of everything that we have to offer, or are simply not sure how / where to get started...then please read on. Here are a few different ways to get started: Just dive in and explore...

Here is a tip if you are using ITCAM4Tx with ISM agent and its http/s monitor, with page (url) field longer than 64 characters : When you configure a HTTP(S) monitor using TEP ISM Configuration GUI, if the page parameter is longer than 64...

IBM Support Portal Adviser Beta - Now Expanded to All IBM Software Products!
IBM has recently expanded the IBM Support Portal Adviser Beta to all IBM Software products. What is the IBM Support Portal Adviser? The IBM Support Portal Adviser (ISPA) is a...

If you have ever used the IBM Support Portal pages to find information about IBM Integration Bus (IIB) then you are probably aware that all the information for IIB has been indexed on the WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) Support Portal pages. ...

When it comes to open source software there are usually two
main perspectives (among several other opinions!) on its value. One is that the software is “free” (that is,
there is typically not a license cost) and that is good for the consumer. The other...

Hopefully by now you've seen the announcements about WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management joining the ranks of several other IBM software products with offerings out on Amazon Web Services . Here's the IBM press release: http://www-304.ibm.com/jct...

Updated (2/09/2017): See this new blog entry for the latest information: IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere Message Broker: Support Portal changes In June 2013 IBM Integration Bus (IIB) V9.0 was made available as the newest version...